Public policy is designed by spin doctors who aim to keep our heads below the water. The public good is not a consideration, and their self-serving agendas prevail over common sense.
Marilyn Ferguson
Related The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitud... MARILYN FERGUSON They're working in a public venue on public-policy issues, so why shouldn't their fees be made publi... LEAH RUSH This is a public controversy and will remain a public controversy regardless of what the court acted... JENNIFER PETERSON The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know a... CHUCK GRASSLEY America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive... AYN RAND It's a philosophical decision consistent with our values. We think this is just not good public poli... KEN CHALK Cooler heads prevail while things spin completely out of control. CLIFFORD COHEN Today is designed to deliver a message through song that will stick in our teachers' heads all year.... ANN MARIE DILLON Today is designed to deliver a message through song that will stick in our teachers' heads all year,... MARIE DILLON While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of emin... SOLOMON ORTIZ The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion o... HANNAH ARENDT Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain. JESSICA SAVITCH This is not about politics _ it's about good public policy and constitutional law. DAVE MENZER The policy says important things about self-identifications, things that are not common sense. DEAN SPADE If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best. ROBERT SIAHAAN The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the ot... ANN RICHARDS I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public p... BARBARA MIKULSKI When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than pub... EMMANUEL MACRON Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense o... MARGARET FULLER Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even ... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH It's not being driven by public policy. ASSEMBLYMAN LOUIS GREENWALD There is no reason for us to keep those records confidential, ... It appears to me ... that we've lo... RODNEY YOUNG Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. We are doing this for the public, because the frequencies used by TV stations are public domain. So ... ADE ARMANDO I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense. WAYNE BRADY Science is good furniture for one's upper chamber, if there is common sense below. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one... FREDERICK SCOTT OLIVER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Our reading is that their aim is not to begin a tightening cycle but to reinstate a normal monetary ... ANNE MILLS We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based o... MAC THORNBERRY Wishful thinking is not sound public policy. BJORN LOMBORG Our message is that, purely as a public policy, the death penalty fails. ABE BONOWITZ Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one. NOW IS GOOD The public grant is designed to replace the PAC. KEVIN KENNEDY In Korea, there are many people who keep their family dogs in their garden, neglecting their physica... YOON KERR You've got the foxes guarding the hen house, and that is never a good way to make public policy, BILL ALLISON Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dom... GIUSEPPE PREZZOLINI Honesty is the best policy. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political for... DONELLA MEADOWS I am very pleased that common sense and the public interest have prevailed, YOSSI SARID Money has always been framed as a public good, one that must be stewarded by governments, when in fa... MELTEM DEMIRORS We have repeatedly called on the government to raise the basic personal exemption. We believe that i... ADRIENNE BATRA I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that... BILL DE BLASIO Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue ... JONATHAN MAYHEW I don't. Not in public. Not at home. I have no ill will towards peaceful people who happen to cover ... MICHELLE MALKIN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING The phrase "public office is a public trust," has of last become
common property. CHARLES SUMNER It is our firm belief that this shift in burden is offensive to over 100 years of public policy in F... BARBARA PETERSEN Death knew that to tinker with the fate of one individual could destroy the whole world. He knew thi... TERRY PRATCHETT It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not... MADELINE ZIMA This rig is obviously a lemon, and to keep putting it back in service is not doing the public any go... ED BROWN Policy is no longer being written by politicians accountable to the American public. Instead, polici... HENRY GIROUX I hope common sense will prevail. FREDERIC THIRIEZ The true path requires courage ... and it is possible that the public is not fully ready for the pai... EHUD BARAK Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any t... E. F. BENSON I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common s... MYRNA LOY Common sense, you know, has got to prevail. BRAD WEAVER Our aim was to get this information into the public domain, and the government's attempts at withhol... AMRIT SINGH Occasionally we humans should all show gratitude to the great companies the world over that are swea... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, a... H. L. MENCKEN At the moment, we do not know who the responsible parties might be. The first consideration of any r... MIKE CRIPPS The bottom line is that the private sector has no business running our prisons. This is one of the m... TED STRICKLAND Apple chief executive Tim Cook is such a respected figure that it's easy to overlook the basic p... DAVID IGNATIUS Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. MARK TWAIN It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common hones... H. L. MENCKEN It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common hones... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN That's our policy. We're not looking for fame. Our aim here is to carry a message. BOB L. Corruption is the art of shortchanging yourself by using funds meant for public good for your privat... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Ame... NICK RAHALL The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON Our teachers are valuable, and our public policy should reflect that. DOUG DUCEY This campaign is about reform. It is about opening state policy-making to public scrutiny. It is abo... BOB GAMMAGE The commission may direct (staff) to explain alternatives to the public and that's certainly the com... CITY MANAGER RUSS BLACKBURN (The initiative) is a public/private partnership designed to attract and retain the businesses and h... MORGAN O'BRIEN I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good... GEORGE MASON Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, def... DAVID WILKERSON If they have been meeting in secret for a month, those meetings are subject to the Sunshine, which m... BARBARA PETERSEN CBGB always gave musicians a platform to say important things, ... It's time we did something to sav... PUBLIC ENEMY Sadly, since last year's first memorial service, 14 police officers in Great Britain and Northern Ir... JAN BERRY The federal government is not putting appropriate resources on the borders. It's unfair to ask local... DENNIS HUSCH That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence an... JEFF MILLER Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to... MARK TWAIN Our doctors and nurses should not have to rely on CNN or word of mouth for critical public health in... CHARLES SAUNDERS Our doctors and nurses should not have to rely on CNN or word of mouth for critical public health in... CHARLES SAUNDERS President Bush has handed out some of the country's most difficult and important jobs - leadership p... HENRY A. WAXMAN Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamenta... CHARLES EDISON Our results indicate that a restrictive public policy toward ECT is not warranted on the basis of th... W. VAUGHN MCCALL During my two terms serving the good people of New Hampshire's First District, I always worked f... CAROL SHEA-PORTER Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the public ... ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers. JAMES HANSEN This idea that privilege comes with position is something that's terribly antiquated and doesn't bel... JACK GOULD If tribes like the Rumsey tribe, who have demonstrated a shared commitment with local governments, a... DOUG ELMETS Age is just a number. Being a grown up can disconnect you from common sense and true happiness. Grow... NERISSA IRVING It was a big comeback win for us. To be on the road, it was good to come back and keep our heads abo... LORI ALEXANDER There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy. NOAM CHOMSKY If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the o... THOMAS JEFFERSON A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from... JAMES CASH PENNEY When it comes to debates over public policy and issues, Dean should be welcoming the voice of Americ... JOSEPH CELLA
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